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1	Freud: A Life for Our Time more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist This biography of Freud provides an overview of his life and of the academic life of other early psychoanalysts. It also discusses his Jewishness - the way it influenced his life and the anti-Semitism in Vienna - while emphasizing his bourgeois aspirations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.28! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Freud Reader more books like this by Sigmund Freud, Professor Peter Gay (Editor) add to wishlist The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $13.87! \| SVS
3	A Philosophical Dictionary more books like this by Voltaire add to wishlist "Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary", first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Nowadays, the Enlightenment is often judged harshly for its simplistic optimism. Peter Gay revisits the sources to show that the Enlightenment's increasing scientific method and belief in reason marked the beginning of the modern age. see all copies from $8.71! new only from $12.52!
5	The Cultivation of Hatred more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Pleasure Wars more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Peter Gay's "The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud" has had a great effect on the thinking about the 19th century as a whole and particularly about its dynamo - the middle classes. Gay summarizes the interior life, the mentality of the 19th century. In uncovering the roots of modernism, he shows us a hidden side of the Victorian era. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914 more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Au audacious work, "Schnitzler's Century" reassesses 19th-century history and traces the dramatic rise of the middle class. We have always believed that corseted Queen Victoria defined the mores of the 19th century. Yet Peter Gay suggests in this provocative, seminal work that it is the sexually emboldened Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Chess Story more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Joel Rotenberg (Translator), Professor Peter Gay (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist A study of German culture between the two wars, this book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Includes a new Introduction. 16 illustrations. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $6.88! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Enlightenment: An Interpretation more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist In his reinterpretation of The Enlightenment, the author describes its social history and the environment from which philosophers drew their ideas. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $90.93! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Gay's ambitious endeavor looks at the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, Gay traces the revolutionary path from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement. Illustrated. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist "A concise, pointed historical inquiry into Freud's atheism and Jewish cultural identity and their role in his development of psychoanalysis."-Library Journal "A lucid, occasionally provocative close-up of Freud-as-nonbeliever, enhanced by Gay's suave, broadly allusive handling of the historical and theological contexts."-Kirkus Reviews "In this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.18! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 1: Education of the Senses more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist For decades after the romantic poets, novelists, artists, and philosophers who had celebrated the liberated spirit passed from the scene, their ideas and ideals, suitably tamed for middle-class consumption, continued to percolate through Victorian culture. At the very time that industrial and mercantile buccaneers, inventors, statesmen, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist MY GERMAN QUESTION is the author's childhood memoir, first as an only child of an assimilated Jewish family in Nazi Berlin, and then in America. Gay focuses on the anti-Semitic society of 1930s Germany and the reasons why his family stayed there as long as it did. With b&w photos. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $4.42! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist In his reinterpretation of The Enlightenment, the author describes its social history and the environment from which philosophers drew their ideas. see all copies from $7.39! new only from $13.27! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait more books like this by Ms. Ruth Gay, Professor Peter Gay (Introduction by) add to wishlist This book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.50! \| first editions
17	The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist "The Tender Passion" continues Peter Gay's eloquent study of the Victorian middle classes. His first volume, "Education of the Senses" dealt with sexual attitudes: this new volume concentrates on notions of love. Gay argues that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexuality, but to know love in its most exalted sense. He begins with a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.61! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Renowned historian Peter Gay examines the "inner life" of the middle class, depicting a bourgeoisie far more open and far less hypocritical than its critics have maintained. The figures on these pages include Dickens, Flaubert, Delacroix, Millet, Bocklin, George Eliot, William James and more. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.36! \| first editions
19 view cover	Freud for Historians more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Is psychoanalysis a legitimate tool for helping us understand the past? Many traditional historians have answered with an emphatic no, greeting the introduction of Freud into historical study with reponses ranging from condescending skepticism to outrage. Now Peter Gay, one of America's leading historians, builds and eloquent case for "history ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.41! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Peter Gay tackles the problem of fiction vs. fact, and cautions that fiction is a far different thing from history, and should be considered so by scholars. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Style in History more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.67! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.10! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Naked Heart more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $18.73! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Mozart more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Mozart's unshakeable hold on the public's fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay's bold, new perspective. His passionate and painstaking research reveals truths more fascinating than the myths that have long shrouded the maestro's life. Here is the archetypal child prodigy whose genius triumphed over early ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Mozart: A Penguin Life more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's fascination can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's bold new perspective which traces the legendary developments of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.37! \| first editions

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